Many have asked where I obtained the old maps, photos, journals, books etc. for my last few books on Fujian and
history and culture. Sadly--virtually none came from China. Most historic Fujian material was destroyed by the invading Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s. And quite a bit was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution when, right here on Gulangyu Islet, they made bonfires of priceless old books and photos and mementos (and bulldozed the over 300-year-old foreigners' cemetery with its beautiful tombstones; they did the same thing with Chinese heritage as well, so it wasn't just directed at us foreign devils).
Happily, though, it's easy to find so much online now. By searching eBay and used bookstores, I've found hundreds of old books, maps, photos, etc. My favorite sites are
-- my favorite, because they twice went to bat for me against unscrupulous book dealers). These two sites give you the results for thousands of sellers and allows you to compare prices. In comparing prices, be sure to factor in shipping costs. Some sites give very low prices but exorbitant shipping charges.
Nowadays, you can actually download most of these historic materials for free from the
, which has millions of old books and documents, as well as classic radio and TV programs (and movies) and the amazing "Waybackmachine"-- 505 billion archived internet webpages--which just proves that nothing is ever truly deleted once it is on the web. A sobering thought.
The materials are scanned by armies of volunteers and quality varies, but the files are fine for text--though the resolution of the photos is too low to be useful. That is why I've bought so many original books--to use the photos.
Once you've downloaded some of these millions of free online eBooks, you can send them to your Kindle by using the free Amazon application
.
for an explanation of how to do that (and 7 reasons I now read eBooks on Kindle instead of a phone).
I started collecting books after I tried to get permission to use an old photo from a 100-year-old book at the New York City library. They wanted me to sign a contract promising to use the scan once, explaining what I was doing with the scan and why--and they demanded USD 175! Highway robbery. I politely declined (while, I regret thinking impolite thoughts), and not long afterwards I found the book for sale online for much less than NYC library was charging for one scan--and the book had over 40 photos!
To give you a head start, below are some of the most useful or interesting books that I've found for my research on old
Old Amoy Bibliography
(I've highlighted my favorites)
Abend, Hallett, “Treaty
Ports,” Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, New York, 1944
Allom, Thomas and Wright,
the Reverend G.N., “China in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery,
Architecture, and Social Habits of that Ancient Empire,” Fisher, London and
Paris, 1843.
“The Amoy Gazette”
(厦门钞报)
“Amoy General Geographical
Description, &c.” China Review, Vol. 22, No.3, 1896
Anderson, John L., “Our
Horse Races in China,” in Outing, Vol. XVI, Issue 5, 5 August, 1890
Anderson, John A., M.D.,
“The Opium Question: A New Opportunity,” in Chinese Recorder, Vol. 37, August, 1906.
Anti-Cobweb Society,
“Fukien Arts and Industries: Papers by Members of the Anti-Cobweb Society,
Foochow, Fukien, China,” Christian Herald Industrial Press, Foochow 1933. Delightful book; explains why Fujian silk was as good or better than Hangzhou silk, and how our province earned more money from bamboo than from tea, for which we are globally famous.
“Greetings from Amoy; Amoy
Mission, 1842-1907,” Pamphlet by Reformed Church of America.
“Asia Journal and Monthly
Register for British India and its Dependencies,”; Supplementary Intelligence,
Vol. XXVI, July to December 1828, London, 1828
Baldwin, Rev. S.L.D.D.,
“Lieutenant Wood on Missionaries in China,” Chinese Recorder, Vol. 20, Nov.
1889.
Ball, Benjamin Lincoln,
“Rambles in Eastern Asia: Including China and Manila, During Several Years
Residence,” James French and Company, Boston, 1856
Ball, J. Dyer, “Things
Chinese; or Notes Connected with China,” Kelly & Walsh, Hong Kong,
1903
Ball, J. Dyer, “The
Celestial and his Religions: or, the religious aspect in China. Being a series of lectures on the religions
of the Chinese,” Kelly and Walsh, Hong Kong, 1906
Band, Edward, “Working His
Purpose Out: The History of the English Presbyterian Mission,” Presbyterian
Church of England, London, 1948 Rare Amoy photographs.
Barbour, George F., “China
and the Missions at Amoy, with Notice of the Opium Trade,” William P. Kennedy,
Edinburgh, 1855.
Bax, Captain B.W., R.N,
“The Eastern Seas; Being a Narrative of the ‘Dwarf’ in China, Japan, and
Formosa,” John Murray, London, 1875
Beach, Harlan P., “Dawn on
the Hills of T’ang, or, Missions in China,” Student Volunteer Movement for
Foreign Missions,” New York, 1905
Bedloe, Edward, M.D., U.S.
Consul, reporting in “Weekly Abstract of Sanitary Reports,” Supervising
Surgeon-General M.H,S., Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893
Bedloe, Edward, M.D., U.S.
Consul in Amoy, :”Public Health Reports, Vol. 2, January 1, 1881
Beltman, Henry, “90 Years
with Uncle Henry,” Robert Schuller Ministries, Garden Grove, California, 1984 Henry Beltman was the indefatigable uncle of Crystal Cathedral's Robert Schuller.
Bishop, Mrs. J.F., “Chinese
Pictures; Notes on Photographs Made in China,” Cassell and Company Limited,
London, 1900
Blakeslee, George H.,
Editor, “China and the Far East: Clark University Lectures,” Thomay Y. Crowell
and Co., New York, 1910
B.N., “The Drum Wave Island
and other Verses of the China Coast,” Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1904 Delightful poems, though I can find nothing about the author himself. Download it from my website at http://www.amoymagic.com/Gulangyu_poems.htm
Boehm, Lise, “China Coast
Tales,” Kelly and Walsh Limited, Shanghai, 1897. “In the Sixties.”
Bonar, Rev. Andrew A., “Memoir
of the Life and Brief Ministry of Rev. David Sandeman,”
James Nisbet & Co., London, 1861.
Boulger, Demetrius Charles,
“China—Nations of the World Series,” Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1902
Bowra, Cecil A.V.,
Commissioner of Customs, “Amoy,” in Wright, 1908
Bradford, Ruth P., “The
Journal and Letters of Ruth Bradford, 1861-1872, Prospect Press, Hartford,
Connecticut, 1938. Absolutely hilarious account of life in Amoy by the high-spirited and spoiled daughter of the U.S. consulate. I love the line drawings.
Breck, Samuel, “Descendants
of Aaron and Mary (Church) Magoun, of Pembroke, Massachusetts, Third Edition,”
Washington, D.C., 1891.
Breuer, Hans, “Columbus was
Chinese, Discoveries and Inventions of the Far East,” Herder and Herder, New
York, 1972
Brown, C. Campbell, “China
in Legend and Story,” Fleming H. Revell Company, NY, 1907
Brown's two daughters visited me in Xiamen a few years ago and I showed them around their parents old haunts in Quanzhou. Amazing stories; Quanzhou Evening News published a great article on this after I donated Quanzhou several old books.
Bruce, C.D., Colonel, “The
Provinces of China”; Reprinted from the National Review (China) as the “The
National Review Annual,” The National Review Office, Shanghai, 1910
Caldwell, George W., M.D.,
“Oriental Rambles,” G.W. Caldwell, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1906.
Caldwell, “China Coast
Family,” Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, 1953 Amazing story of a Tennessee family of missionaries, naturalists and Amoy tiger hunters in Fujian from 1899 to the 1950s. Download my PDF scan from this page: http://www.amoymagic.com/Amoytiger.htm
Campbell, Rev.W., F.R.G.S.,
“Education and Work for the Chinese Blind,” Chinese Recorder, Vol. 21, p. 450,
October, 1889
Carles, William Le Gendre,
U.S. Consul in Amoy, “How to Deal with China. A Letter to de B. Rand. Kiem,
Esquire, Agent of the United States, Amoy, 1871.
Chater, Paul Cachik;
Orange, James, “The Chater Collection: Pictures Relating to China, Hongkong,
Macao, 1655-1860; with Historical and Descriptive Letterpress by James Orange,”
London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1924
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| 1755 French Map of Amoy (Emowi, Xiamen) Gulangyu (Kolongsoo) and Jinmen (Quemoy) from Atlas de "I'Histoire General des Voyages", Antoine Francois Prevost |
"Chinese
Recorder", Volume 5, American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai, Volume
5, May
Clarke, Basil, “Chinese
Science and the West,” Nile & MacKenzie, Ltd. London, 1980.
Close, Upton, “In the Land
of the Laughing Buddha; the Adventures of an American Barbarian in China,” G.P.
Putnam and Sons, New York & London, 1924.
Coffin, George, A Pioneer
Voyage to California and Round the World, 1849 to 1852” Gorham B. Coffin, Illinois, June, 1908.
Cope, Captain, "A New
History of the East-Indies: With Brief Observations on the Religion, Customs,
Manners and Trade of the Inhabitants...", M. Cooper, London, 1754.
Corwin, Edward Tanjore,
D.D. “A Manual of the Reformed Church in America (Formerly Reformed Dutch
Church), 1628-1902, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1902.
Cressy-Marcks, Violet,
“Journey into China,” E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1942
Gordon-Cumming, Miss, “The
Explosion at Amoy,” St. James’ Gazette, in Littell’s Living Age, Feb. 4, 1888.
Cunynghame, Colonel Arthur
Augustus Thurlow, "An Aide-De-Camp's Recollections of Service in China, A
Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to Other Islands in the Chinese Seas,"
London, 1853
Curtis, Benjamin Robbins,
“Dottings Round the Circle,” James R. Osgood & Company, Boston, 1876
D’Almeida, Anna, “A Lady’s
Visit to Manilla and Japan,” Hurst and Blackett, London, 1863.
Darley, Mary, “Cameos of a
Chinese City,” [Jian ‘Ou] Church of England Zenana Missionary Society,
Missionary Society, 27 Chancery Lane, London, 1917
Darley, Mary, “The Light of
the Morning,” Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, Missionary Society,
27 Chancery Lane, London, 1903
Davis, John Francis, “The
Chinese: General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants,” Vol.
2, Charles Knight & Company, London, 1836
Davis, Rev. J.A., “The
Young Mandarin; a Story of Chinese Life” Congregational Sunday-School and
Publishing Society, Boston and Chicago, 1896
Dean, William, “The China
Mission: Embracing a History of the Various Missions of All Denominations Among the Chinese, with
Biographical Sketches of Deceased Missionaries,” Sheldon & Co., New York,
1859
De Jong, Gerald F., “The
Reformed Church in China 1842-1951,” Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Michigan,
1992 This is THE definitive modern work on the Amoy Mission.
Denby, Hon. Charles, LL.D.,
[Thirteen Years United States Minister to China], “China and Her People: Being
the Observations, Reminiscences, and Conclusions of an American Diplomat, Vol.
II, L.C. Page and Company, Boston, 1906
Denby, Hon. Charles, LL.D.,
“China’s Open Door,” Lothrop Publishing, Boston, 1900
Dennis, Rev. James S.,
“Christian Missions and Social Progress: A Sociological Study of Foreign
Missions,” Vol. III, Fleming H. Revell Company, NY, 1906
DeVelder, Walter, “A
Missionary Journey Over Nine Decades” (unpublished).
Dobell, Peter, “Travels in
Kamtchatka and Siberia, with a Narrative of a Residence in China, Vol. II,
London, 1830. Dobell: Counselor of the
Court of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia”.
du Halde, P., “ The General
History of China,” (4 vols: London, 1741), vol.1 p.169.
Dukes, Edwin Joshua,
“Everyday Life in China; or, Scenes Along River and Road in Fuh-Kien,” London
Missionary Society’s Edition, The Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternoster Row;
65, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and 164, Piccadilly, 1885 This delightful book has dozens of engraved illustrations of Chinese life in Fujian, including Amoy and Kulongsoo (Gulangyu).
Duryea, Rev. William Rankin D.D., “The Amoy Mission,” Excerpted from “A Manual of the Missions of
the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America,” by Sangster, Mrs. Margaret E., Ed.;
Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, New York, 1877,
pp.170-209
Ecke, Gustav, and
Demieville, P., “The Twin Pagodas of Zayton,” Harvard University Press,
Massachusetts, 1935. Ecke, a German scholar, erected two full-sized wooden scaffolds around these two 1000-year-old pagodas and photographed every stone engraving! Amazing book; very rare. Quanzhou government copied the volume in Beijing but I managed to buy a copy myself. This project was written about in "A Race of Green Ginger" (another of my favorites on this list).
Edkins, Jane Rowbotham
Stobbs, “Chinese Scenes and People: With
Notices of Christian Missions and Missionary Life in a Series of Letters from
Various Parts of China,” James Nisbit and Company, London, 1863 Beautiful descriptions of early Amoy, making comparisons to Scotland.
Edkins, Joseph, D.D.,
“Introduction to the Study of the Chinese Characters,” Trubner and Company,
London, 1875
Edkins, Rev. J., D.D.,
“Early Forms of Chinese,” Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, March-April, 1885.
English Presbyterian
Messenger, Vol 1. 1st May 1845 to 31st December 1847,
Hamilton, Adams, and Co., Paternoster-Row, London, 1847
Esther. Joe, “This Is The
Way, Walk Ye In It,” Privately printed, Redlands, Ca. 1977
Eve, Paul F. M.D. and Garvin, I.P. M.D. “The Southern Medical and
Surgical Journal Vol. 1, 1845 New Series,” P.C. Guieu Publisher, Augusta, Jan.
1845
Fagg, John Gerardus,
Chinese Recorder,Vol. 23,Nov.1892.
Fagg, John Gerardus, “Forty Years in China, the
Life of Rev.John van Nest Talmage,”
Brooklyn, 1894
Fenn, C.H. Rev.,
"Methods of Self Support," Chinese
Recorder, Vol. 29, No. 2, Feb. 1898
Fergusson, James, “The
Illustrated Handbook of Architecture,” John Murray, London, 1855
Fisher, Lena Leonard, “The
River Dragon’s Bride,” Abingdon Press, New York, 1922
Ford, John D., “An American
Cruiser in the East, Travels and Studies in the Far East,” 2nd
Edition, With an Account of the Battle of Manila, April 30, 1898, A.S. Barnes
and Company, New York, 1898 Ford was
First Engineer of the Pacific Station, United States Navy.
Forgues-Daurand,
Paul-Emile, “La Chinese Ouverte, Adventures d’un Fan-Kouei dans le pays de
Tsin,” H. Fournier, Paris, 1845
Foster, John W., “American
Diplomacy in the Orient,” 1903.
Foster, Ellsworth, D. Ed.,
“The World Book,” Vol. 1, The World Book Inc., Chicago, 1918.
Franck, Harry A.,
“Wandering in Northern China,” The Century Co., New York, 1923 Franck wrote large, fascinating volumes filled with priceless photographs.
Franck, Harry A., “Roving
Through Southern China,” The Century Co., New York, 1925.
Fullerton, W.Y., andWilson,
C.E., “New China—A Story of Modern Travel,” Morgan and Scott, Ltd., (Office of
the Christian), 12 Paternoster Buildings, London, 1910.
Gamewell, Mary Ninde, “New
Life Currents in China,” Interchurch Press, New York, 1919
Gaunt, Rev. L.H., Ed., “The
Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, Vol. VIII, No. 85 New Series,”
London, 1899
Giles, Herbert Allan, L.L.D.,
“A Short History of Koolangsu,” Amoy, 1878.
Giles, Herbert Allen,
L.L.D., “China and the Chinese,” Columbia University Press, N.Y., 1902.
Gillespie, Rev. William,
“The Land of Sinim, or, China and Chinese Missions,” Myles Macphail, London,
1854 [Gillespie was “For seven years
agent of the London Missionary Society at Hong-Kong and Canton, and now
minister of the United Presbyterian Church, Shiels, Aberdeen.”]
Goodrich, Joseph King, “The
Coming China,” A.C. McClure Co., Chicago, 1911
Gordon-Cumming, Miss, in
“Littell’s Living Age,” Fifth Series, Volume LXL, No Feb. 4, 1888.
Gottschall, Terrell D., “By
order of the Kaiser,” Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2003
Graves, Rev. Rosewell
Hobart, “Forty Years in China,” R.H. Woodward Company, Baltimore, 1895.
Griffis, William Elliot
Griffis, D.D., L.H.D., “Hepburn of Japan, and His Wife and Helpmates; a Life
Story of Toil for Christ,” Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1913
Groot, J.J.M., "The
Religious System of China, its ancient forms, evolution, history and present
aspect. Manners, customs and social institutions
connected therewith," Vol. 1, 1892.
Book 1. Disposal of the Dead. Vol. 1,
Part. 1 Funeral Rites, Chapter 1, The Decease.
Gutzlaff, Karl F. A.,
“Journal of Three Voyages Along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832, and 1833,”
Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, London, 1834. Wonderful, insightful descriptions of Amoy and its people.
Gutzlaff, Charles, Rev. by
Rev. Andrew Reed, D.D., “China Opened; or, A Display of the Topography,
History, Customs, Manners, Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, Literature, Religion,
Jurisprudence, etc. of the Chinese Empire,” Vol. II Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1838.
Haffner, Christopher,
“Amoy—The Port and the Lodge,” The Corinthian Lodge of Amoy, No. 1806 EC, Hong
Kong, 1997
Hamilton, Alexander, “New
Account of the East Indies, Being the Observations and Remarks of Captain Alexander
Hamilton, 1688-1723,” King’s Printing House, printed by John Mosman, Edinburgh,
1727
Hart, Robert, “These from
the Land of Sinim: Essays on the Chinese Questions,” Chapman and Hall, London,
1901.
Headland, Isaac Taylor,
“China’s New Day,” Frank Wood Printer, Boston, Massachusetts, 1912.
Hewlett, Sir Meyrick,
“Forty Years in China,” Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1943.
Hobson, John M.,”The
Eastern Origins of Western Civilization,” Cambridge Univ. Press, U.K. 2004.
Holkeboer, Tena, “God’s
Bridge, or the Story of Jin-Gi,” Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand
Rapids, MI, 1944
Hollister, Mary Brewster,
“Lady Fourth Daughter of China,” The Central Committee on the United Study of
Foreign Missions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1932
Hughes, George, [Commissioner
of Imperial Maritime Customs at Amoy] “Amoy and Surrounding Districts,” De Souza
and Company, Hong Kong, 1872
Hurlbut, Floy, “The
Fukienese: a Study in Human Geography,” Doctoral dissertation for University of
Nebraska, 1939
Johnston, Rev. James.,
“China and Formosa; The Story of a Successful Mission,” Hazell, Watson, &
Viney, Ld. London, 1898
Johnston, Meta and Lena,
Jin Ko-Niu—A Brief Sketch of the Life of Jessie M. Johnston For Eighteen Years
W.M.A. Missionary in Amoy, China, T. French Downie 21 Warwick Lane, London,
E.C. 1907 Heartwarming story of this young female missionary who spent her life on Amoy women's education. Read it at: http://www.amoymagic.com/jessie1.htm
Joseland, Rev. Frank P.
“Our Missionary Districts, Amoy and Chiang-Chiu”, in Gaunt, 1899.
Keith, Marian, “The Black
Bearded Barbarian: The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa,” The Missionary
Society of the Methodist Church, The Young People’s Forward Movement
Department, Toronto, 1912.
Kesson, John (of the
British Museum),“The Cross and the Dragon, or, The Fortunes of Christianity in
China, with Notices of the Christian Missions and Missionaries, and some
Accounts of the Chinese Secret Societies,”Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1854.
King, F. H. , D. Sc., “Farmers of Forty Centuries, or,
Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan,” University of Wisconsin, 1911
King, John W., Master,
R.N.,The China Pilot, Comprising the Coasts of China, Korea, and Tartary; The
Sea of Japan, Gulfs of Tartary and Amur, and Sea of Okhotsk; and the …” 3rd Edition, Hydrographic Office,
Admiralty, London, 1861.
Knollys, Major Henry,
“English Life in China,” Smith, Elder & Company, London, 1885
Kwantes, Helen, “She has
done a Beautiful Thing for me; Portraits of Christian Women in Asia.” OMF
Books.
LaMotte, Ellen N., “Peking
Dust,” The Century Company, New York, 1919. Very insightful!
Lawrence, James B.,
U.S.M.C. “China and Japan, and a Voyage Thither: An Account of a Cruise in the
Waters of the East Indies, China and Japan,” Press of Case, Lockwood &
Brainard, Hartford, Connecticut, 1870.
Lawrence, Una Roberts,
“Lottie Moon,” Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention,
Nashville, 1927
Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman, “Portraits
from a Chinese Scroll,” the John C. Winston Company, Chicago, 1938
Liddell, T. Hodgson,
“China, it’s Marvel and Mystery,” John Lane, New York, 1909
Lin, Yutang, “My Country
and My People,” Foreign Language and Teaching Press, Beijing, 1998. Lin Yutang, from nearby Zhangzhou (two hours from Xiamen) wrote amazing books in English. The greatest 20th century Chinese writer!
Little, Archibald, Mrs.
“Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them,” Hutchinson & Co.,
London, 1899 Large, heavy volume chock full of great photographs.
Lockhart, William, The
Medical Missionary in China: A Narrative of Twenty Years' Experience, Hurst and
Blackett, Publishers, Spottiswoode and Company, London, 1861
Low, Captain Charles
Porter, “Some Recollections by Captain Charles P. Low: Commanding the Clipper
Ships “Houqua,” “Jacob Bell,” “Samuel Russell,” “and “N. B. Palmer,” in the
China Trade 1847-1873,” George H. Ellis Company, Boston, 1906
Lowrie, Rev. Walter M.,
“Memoirs,” Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, New York,
1850.
Lu, C.C., of Ningpo, China
“China and England: a Lecture Delivered at Sheffield University,” Sheffield
Independent Press, Sheffield, U.K., 1904
Macaulay, Hastings, “A
Cruise in the China Seas,” G.P. Putnam & Company, New York, 1852.
MacCauley, Hastings, Life
Among the Chinese, Carlton and Porter, New York, 1861.
MacGowan, John, “The
History of Self-Support in the London Mission,” Chinese Recorder, Vol. 18,
December, 1887. I have all of MacGowan's books. Very insightful writing and priceless photographs.
Macgowan, Rev. John,
“Christ or Confucius, Which?, or, The Story of the Amoy Mission,” London
Missionary Society, 14 Blomfield Street, E.C.; John Snow & Co., 2 Ivy Lane,
Paternoster Row, E.C. 1895
Macgowan, Rev. John,
“Pictures of Southern China,” The Religious Tract Society, London, 1897
Macgowan, Rev. John,
“Sidelights on Chinese Life,” Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Limited, London,
1907
Macgowan, Rev. John,
“Lights and Shadows of Chinese Life,” North China Daily News & Herald Ltd.,
Shanghai, 1909
Macgowan, Rev. John, “Men
and Manners of Modern China,” T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1912.
Macgowan, John, “How
England Saved China,” T. Fisher Unwin,
London, 1913.
Macgowan, John, “Beside the
Bamboo,” London Missionary Society, 16 New Bridge Street, London, 1914.
Macgregor, Rev. W. Letter
dated January 14, 1875, in The Messenger and Missionary Record of the
Presbyterian Church in England, London, April 1, 1875
Macguire, Theophane, C.P.,
“Hunan Harvest, Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, 1946.
Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil,
“A Race of Green Ginger,” Putnam, London, 1959 My favorite account of foreign life on Gulangyu and in Amoy in the 1920s and 30s. She also wrote about Ecke, the German who photographed Quanzhou's (Zayton's) twin pagodas.
Maclay, Rev. R. S., “Life
Among the Chinese: With Characteristic Sketches and incidents of Missionary
Operations and Prospects in China,” Carlton & Porter, New York, 1861.
MacPherson, D., M.D., “Two
Years in China: Narrative of the Chinese Expedition, from its formation in
April, 1840, to the treaty of peace in August, 1842,” Saunders and Otley,
London, 1843.
Manson-Bahr, Sir Ph-ilip,
“Patrick Manson, The Father of Tropical Medicine,” Thomas Nelson and Sons,
Ltd., Edinburgh, 1962 Gulangyu was called the Cradle of Tropical Medicine because it was here that Manson discovered the link between mosquitoes and malaria. Read more here: http://www.amoymagic.com/Manson.htm
Martin, Robert
Montgomery, China; political,
commercial, and social; in an official report to her Majesty’s Government, Vol.
II, James Madden, London, 1847
Matheson, Donald, Esq.,
“Narrative of the Mission to China of the English Presbyterian Church, with
Remarks on the Social Life and Religious Ideas of the Chinese, by the Rev.
James MacGowan (London Missionary Society of Amoy), and Notes on Climate,
Health and Outfit, By John Carnegie, Esq., M.D. of Amoy”, James Nisbet and
Company, London, 1866.
Matheson, Mrs., Ed., Memorials
of Hugh M. Matheson [1921-1898] Edited by his wife with a prefatory note by
the Rev. J. Oswald Dykes, M.A., D.D. Principal of Westminster College,
Cambridge. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
1899
Mathews, Basil, and
Southon, Arthur E., “Torchbearers in China, Missionary Education Movement of
the United States and Canada,” New York, 1924
Mayers, Wm. Fred, and
Dennys, N.B., “The Treaty Ports of China and Japan,” Trubner & Company,
London, 1867
McCasland, David, “Eric
Liddell-Pure Gold,” Discovery House Publishers, Michigan, 2001.
Menpes, Mortimer, and
Blake, Sir Arthur Henry, “China,” Adam and Charles Black, London, 1909.
“Messenger and Missionary
Record of the Presbyterian Church in England,” London, April 1, 1875
Metcalf, Franklin P.,
“Travellers and Explorers in Fukien before 1700,” The Hong Kong Naturalist,
December, 1934
Methodist Episcopal Church
Missionary Society, “The Gospel in All Lands Illustrated,” Eugene R. Smith,
Publisher, New York, Jan.-June, 1881
Michie, Alexander, “The
Englishman in China During the Victorian Period, as Illustrated by the Career
of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in
China and Japan, Vol. I”, William
Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1900
Millard, Thomas E., “Our
Eastern Question: America’s Contact with the Orient and the Trend of Relations
with China and Japan,” The Century Company, NY, 1916
Miller, Basil, “Twenty Four
Missionary Stories from China,” Beacon Hill Press, Kansas City, Missouri, 1948
Miller, J.Martin, “China
Ancient and Modern,” Sanderson-Whitten Publishing Co. Los Angeles, 1900
Morse, Hosea Ballou, “The
Trade and Administration of China,” Green and Company, London, 1919. Ballou was “Sometime Commissioner of
Customs and Statistical Secretary, Inspectorate General of Customs.”
Murray, Lieutenant
Alexander,[18th Royal Irish]
“Doings in China—Being the Personal Narrative of an Officer Engaged in
the Late Chinese Expedition, From the Recapture of Chusan in 1841 to the Peace
in Nankin in 1842.” Richard Bentley, London, 1843
Nautical Magazine and Naval
Chronicle for 1852, A Journal of Papers
on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Notes on a Voyage to China in Her
Majesty’s Late Screw Steamer Reynard.—P. Cracroft, Commander. Simpkin,
Marshall and Co., Ltd.
Needham, Joseph, “Science
in Traditional China,” Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1981.
Neill, Desmond, “Elegant
Flower—First Steps in China,” John Murray, Albemarle St., London, 1956
Second only to Race of Green Ginger in describing Amoy life for foreigners in the 1940s. Insightful, humorous.
Nevius, Helen S.C., “Our
Life in China,” Robert Carter and Brothers, New York, 1869. Unique insight on how the "3 Self Principles" for Chinese churches (which arose in Amoy in the 1950s, not with Communist China after 1949--the Communists just adopted these wise principles) made the Amoy mission the strongest--and how they were taken to Korea!
Nevius, Dr. John L.,
Chinese Recorder, Vol. 23, Nov. 1892.
Ng, Chin-Keong, “Trade and
Society—The Amoy Network on the China Coast 1683-1735,” Singapore University
Press, Singapore, 1983
Oldham, Rev. H.W.,
“Educational Mission Work in and near Amoy,” Changpu, in Chinese Recorder, June
1908.
Orange, James, :The Chater
Collection; Pictures Relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1865-1860, Thornton
Butterworth, Limited, London, 1924
Otte, Frances Phelps, “The
Christian Intelligencer,” Dec. 4, 1901 (from Taitan, Amoy, letter, August
1901).
Phillips, George, “Zaitun
Researches” Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, March-April, 1877.
Pinkerton, J., “A General
Collection of Voyages and Travels, digested by J. Pinkerton,” 1811, Vol. 8.
London, 1812
Pitcher, Philip Wilson,
“Fifty Years in Amoy, a History of the Amoy Mission,” Reformed Church of
America Board of Publication, NY, 1893
Pitcher, Rev. P.W., Letter
from Amoy Boy’s Academy, Kolongsu, Dec. 22nd, 1894, in Chinese Recorder, Vol.26, February.
Pitcher, Rev. P.W.,
"The Native Pastorate at Amoy; or Another Object-Lesson in Self-Support,"
Amoy, July 26th, 1900; in Chinese Recorder, Vol. 31, October, 1900 pp. 503-509, and Nov., pp. 550-
"The Amoy Plan."
Pitcher, Philip Wilson, “In
and About Amoy,” Methodist Publishing House, Shanghai, 1912
This is THE book on early 20th century Amoy. Amazing book, great photos.
Regnault, Elias, and Doane,
Augustus Sidney, "The Criminal History of the English Government: From the
First Massacre of the Irish, to the Poisoning of the Chinese," translated
from the French, J.S. Redfield, New York, 1843
Richard, Timothy, “Forty
Five Years in China; Reminiscences,” Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York,
1916
Ross, Frank, Jr., “Oracle Bones,
Stars, and Wheelbarrows, Ancient Chinese Science and Technology,” Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston, 1982
Rudy, Stella M., “Children
of China,” Rand McNally and Company, Chicago, 1937
Sadler, Rev. James F.,
“Chinese Customs and Superstitions, or, What They do at Amoy,” China Review,
XXII, No. 6, 1897.
Sadler, Rev. James F., “The
Anglo-Chinese College at Amoy,” in Gaunt, 1899.
Sale, George, and others,
“The Modern Part of an Universal History: From the Earliest Account of Time,”
VOL. VIII, Compiled from Original Writers, Printed for Richardson, S., et al.,
London, 1759.
Sangster, Mrs. Margaret E.,
Ed.; “A Manual of the Missions of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America,”
Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, New York, 1877.
Scarth, John, “Twelve Years
in China,” Thomas Constable and Company, Edinburgh, 1860
Scott, Roderick, “Fukien
Christian University,” United Board for Christian Colleges in China, NY, 1954.
Selby, Thomas Gunn, “As the
Chinese See Us,” Fisher Unwin, London, 1901 As useful an insight today as it was 115 years ago.
Shore, Hon. Henry Noel,
R.N., “The Flight of the Lapwing, A Naval Officer’s Jottings in China, Formosa
and J apan,” Longmans, Green and
Company, London, 1881
Singleton, Esther, “China: Described
by Great Writers,” Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1912 Delightful insightful book.
Sirr, Henry Charles, “China
and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufacturers; the
Evils Arising from the Opium Trade,” Vol. I, Wm. S. Orr and Company, London
1849
Smith, D. Warres, “European
Settlements in the Far East,” Sampson, Low, Marston & Company, London, 1900
Smith, Mary Augusta Doty,
“The China Story: Recollections of a Little Girl’s Life in Amoy, China,”
unpublished memoir. [Daughter of Elihu
Doty, RCA Missionary to China, 1844-1864] Great read. Unpublished, but I've uploaded it here: http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_DotyMary1.htm
Smith, Rev. J.N.B.,
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of an Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China, on behalf of
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1857.
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Mission in China,” Young People’s Missionary Movement, New York, 1907
Spencer, Cornelia “Made in
China,” Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1952. One of my favorite books on Chinese inventions, even to this day--with a forward by Lin Yutang.
Stevens, John Austin, “The
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Company, New York, 1880.
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III,” Church Missionary Society, London, 1890.
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Surgeon T.T. Jeans, R.N.,
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Tai, En Sai, “Treaty Ports
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1918
Talman, Rose H., “Our China
Years, 1916-1930,” unpublished notes, provided by Sarah Koeppe.
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of China; 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention,” Prion Books Limited,
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Maya,” Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002.
Thomson, John, “The Land
and the People of China,” Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London,
1876. Some of the earliest photographs of China, including Amoy.
Thomson, Rev. J.C., M.D.,
“Historical Landmarks of Macao,” Chinese Recorder, Vol.19, August, 1888
Thomson, John, “The
Chinese,” Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1909
Timothy, Richard,
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Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1916
Warnshuis, Rev. A.L., M.A.,
“A Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of Dr. John A. Otte,” Amoy Mission, China
, 1911
Watson, Alfred T.,
“Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol. V, July to Dec. 1897”, Longmans,
Green and Company, London, 1907
Webb, John, “The Antiquity
of China, Or An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability that the language of
the Empire of China is the Primitive Language spoken through the whole world
before the Confusion of Babel. Wherein
the Customes and Manners of ye Chineans are presented, and ancient and modern
Authors consulted. With a large Map of
the Countrey,” Obadiah Blagrave, &c., London, 1678
Werner, E.T.C., “Myths
& Legends of China,” George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1922. Fascinating, with excellent color illustrations.
White, Francis Sellon, “A
History of Inventions and Discoveries,” C. & J. Rivington, London, 1827
Williams, Dwight, Mrs., “A
Year in China, and a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, when Homeward
Bound, on Board the Rebel Pirate Florida; with an Introductory Note by William
Cullen Bryant,” Hurd and Houghton, New York, 1864. [Williams was the Commissioner of Customs at
Swatow, employed by the Chinese].
Williams, Edward Thomas,
“China—Yesterday and Today,” George G. Harrap & co., Ltd., London, 1923 Insightful comments on China.
Williamson, Rev. G.R.,
“Memoir of the Rev. David Abeel, D.D.” Robert Carter, New York, 1848
Wright, Arnold,
Editor-in-Chief, “Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and
other Treaty Ports of China,” Lloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company, Ltd.,
London, 1908
Variations on
Romanization of Chinese Names
Even into the 20th
century, there was no standardized Romanized spelling of most Chinese names. Amoy was complicated further by the fact that
place names were rendered in both Mandarin Chinese and, primarily, Amoy Dialect
Romanizations.
厦门: Xiamen:
Amoy, E’meng, Hsiamen, Emwy, Hemouy, Hiamen, Emowi
鼓浪屿 : Gulangyu:
Kulongsu, Koolangsoo, Koolangsu, Cullemshoe
泉州: Quanzhou: Chinchew, Chin-chew, Chinchu, Chwanchow, Tsuen-tcheou-foo,
Chincheo, Cayton, Zaitun, Zayton, Zaiton, Zaithoum
福州: Fuzhou: Fu-cheuo-foo, Fuchow, Foochow, Fuh-Chau., Focheu
台湾: Taiwan: Teywon, Formosa
郑成功: Koxinga: Cocksing, Coxinga
福建: Fujian, Fukien, Fuh-kien, Fokyen
